The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.
 William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Measure for Measure
Topic death life heaven
Date 1623
Language English
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Note Written between 1603 and 1604
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